At the age of 22 I entered into a PhD program, and quite honestly, it would have been at age 21 had I not taken a gap year after I graduated high school before starting college. I am one of the youngest PhD students in my cohort, as my classmates often call me the ‘baby’ of the group. But how did I get here?

If I had a dollar for every time I heard someone say that the government or scientists were hiding the cure for cancer, I’d probably be so rich that I would be living on my own private island and not be in grad school (joke)